Framed and Reframed

Framed and Reframed

How intentional second looks can help We frame all situations for the good or the bad. We can also reframe the same situation. The components of the situation remain, as parallel truths often in a paradoxical position. What does this look like? Reframing goes...
Do For One

Do For One

You can make a difference Stop. Watch. Listen. If you do, attuning yourself to the people around you, you will gather a profound sense of the need people have for encouragement. Sometimes, I do this exercise in a grocery store, Target, or other such crowd. I pray the...
When Worlds Collide

When Worlds Collide

Especially when it’s funny *Note: This blog entry originally ran in August of 2011, but it’s worth sharing again! Travelling back from a pleasant hike at Robbers Cave in Wilburton, Oklahoma, I chose to avoid the interstate.  Instead, I drove through little...
She Lives…Anyway!

She Lives…Anyway!

Love Story Part Two You can click here to read last week’s blog, She Caught My Eye, which is part one of this two part blog/weekly inspiration. Anyway, as lovely as she is on the inside and the outside, she got sick. Pretty bad. Dermatomyositis. The first three...
She Caught My Eye

She Caught My Eye

Love Story Part One I had been on campus about two weeks.  As a transfer student, I had a fairly good idea of what it meant for me to be successful on a small college campus. I had also seen and dated a lot of girls.  Most were very similar as far as I was concerned....